Naptime Confidential: Lazy Santa

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that your New Year is filled with great health and happiness.

Monday: The antibiotics cycle continues. A and I have been congested/sick/etc. since Thanksgiving. I’m prescribed a third round of antibiotics this day. A gets her second a day later. Fingers crossed. We have booked flights for just our second trip with A to visit my family in Tennessee. We leave in three weeks, and I’m now concerned her ears won’t be cleared up in time. We scheduled A’s sick-visit follow-up to coincide with her routine 15-month appointment once we return. I’m now wondering whether we should take her in a couple days before we leave, just to make sure her ears are clear. Thoughts?

Sunday: When she’s home, A still takes two naps. Generally speaking, she has an hour-long one before lunch and then a couple hours in the afternoon. (She only takes one in the afternoon at daycare because, apparently, they are far more interesting than we are). Our Christmas preparations ended like we were reckless drivers pretending to be NASCAR professionals speeding to the finish line, likely on two wheels. As we sat there Christmas Eve after we put her to bed, we imagined staying up late to finish and then waking early to enjoy and realized, “Hey, we could just do Christmas after her first nap.” Boy, are we happy we did that. Not only was A more rested and able to enjoy her new pretend-makers better, we were more rested and able to snap a few hundred photos on our phones. How did you celebrate with your little ones this year?

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I will not accept any 5-day antibiotics as they have ALWAYS been a waste of my time and money (despite lingering in system longer than 5 days). I usually do all right with Bactrim (s/m) or a cephalosporin product for 10 days.

It’s awful to have plane travel involved when a person is ill. Plane travel has given me pleurisy–TWICE.

Some physicians won’t prescribe antibiotics because the big Super Flu is coming.

I would definitely have her little ears checked out before you go so you have peace of mind. I’m sure you don’t want to find out her ears are still a little congested at 30,000 feet! I’m sure your doctor would encourage you to do a quick pop into the office just so they can take a quick peek.

This was our first year where my son would be able to get excited for Christmas (he’s almost 21 months). We got all the presents out Christmas Eve and had them ready for when he woke up in the morning. The back of our living room couch faces his bedroom door so I sat on the couch with my 4 months old and recorded his reaction from the moment he came out of his room. His big gift was a Couzy Coupe, which he has shown he loves when we go to peoples houses who have them for play dates. He is not a morning person (he takes after his mother) so he came out of his room whining and rubbing his eyes but as soon as he came around the corner of the couch and saw that car with the big red bow on it he immediately stopped whining and yelled car-ee! I don’t think he’s gotten out of the car since!I never thought about having him open presents until after his nap but it sure is a great idea.

I think it is impossible to have a nice Christmas with a 1-year old. This reminds me of our winter 2 years ago. My son brought home a nasty bug from daycare and he ended up in the ER with broncholitis. I caught it and needed several rounds of antibiotics of increasing strength to get rid of it. I don’t think we got around to celebrating Christmas and opening presents until New Years Eve.